Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social 
Josh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social I teach Media Studies at The New School. I write about computational technologies, carceral power, and media philosophy.
New book, The Carceral Surround: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/
alex christie @ifqux.bsky.social speculative design and dev
alexchristie.dev
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social Remembering a baseball guy once every two hours. By chickenpuppet.online. Powered by Sports-Reference.
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Tom Slee 🇨🇦 @tomslee.net I refuse to argue on BlueSky.
Some writing and charts and a ridehail simulator at https://tomslee.net,
mirrored at https://tomslee.github.io
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social Trans medicine, AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between. @hcde.uw.edu PhD, @uml-online.bsky.social Postdoc, @bostonfleet.com obsessive. https://ironholds.org/
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
Become a member: https://longreads.com/join/
Submit to us: https://longreads.com/submissions
The Best Show with Tom Scharpling @bestshow4life.bsky.social Mirth, Music & Mayhem
Tuesdays at 6pm EST / 3pm PST (new time!)
Full experience at patreon.com/bestshow4life
Live stream, podcast & more at linktr.ee/bestshow4life
Produced by Forever Dog
Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. The Stakhanov of dad jokes. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social Phenomenologically parsimonious. I perceive, therefore I understand .
Sum, ergo cogito.
Old me: https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com
Claire Wilmot @clairelwilmot.bsky.social Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, legal systems, gender.
https://www.instagram.com/clairelwilmot?igsh=MWl2dmJzYjY2YWh2Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
Dmytri Kleiner @dmytri.to Venture Communist
https://public.monster/~dmytri
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
@melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social 
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social 🕸️🍥 writer / educator 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.eun-song.org 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting 🕸️🍥
Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social senior tech editor, the verge
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social CHANGEOVER, my book about Alcaraz & Sinner, is out now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Changeover/Giri-Nathan/9781668076248
giri[at]defector[dot]com
En Liang Khong @enkhong.bsky.social FT Associate Arts Editor
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*
Liara Roux @liararoux.bsky.social 📚 Whore of New York 🖊 at e-flux, Dazed, Le Temps, Interview, Vogue, etc
🕊️ Rep'd by Tuesday Agency, Aevitas, CAA 💌 liara@liararoux.com
🌐 www.liararoux.com 
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social researching EU AI regulation @ duisburg essen university | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle | free palestine 🍉
https://rachelgrfn.wordpress.com/publications/
jane hu @hujane.bsky.social 
Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
Scott McLemee @mclemee.bsky.social Writer, married, socialist, two cats.
Independent scholar, “public” intellectual, luftmensch.
Thirty years at (successively) Lingua Franca, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed. 
The Morning News @themorningnews.org Newsy, artsy, bloggy by @andrewwomack.net and Rosecrans Baldwin → themorningnews.org
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Emily Vaughn @emilyvaughn.bsky.social Narrative audio maker with scientific proclivities.
Hear me yammer on NPR and Atlas Obscura. Now making pods about democracy and the resurgence of autocracy
https://www.emilyannevaughn.com/
Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
https://chenoehart.com/
Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running (picture eliot.ely)
will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social writer, work in @nymag.com, @newrepublic.com, @nplusonemag.com + more
willtavlin.com
Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com Writer/critic/researcher/musician in DC. Fiction lotsa places. Writing a road trip novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” mikebarthelauthor.com
Making music as APOPHRA https://apophra.bandcamp.com/
Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social Poet and web publisher from the northern tip of southern Appalachia specializing in erasure poetry, ecopoetry, videopoetry and modern haiku. Books include Ice Mountain: An Elegy; Failed State: Haibun; and Breakdown: Banjo Poems.
https://davebonta.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Aiha @aihathing.bsky.social activist. labor. tech. ethics
Michelle Santiago Cortés @michelle-sc.bsky.social as seen on The Cut, ArtReview, Dirt, Lux Magazine + more.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michelleiswriting
The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com 
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Forward deployed zine maker. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨
🌐 johannesklingebiel.de
Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Ellis Hamburger @hamburger.bsky.social helping founders find their truth & share it with the 🌍 → https://meaning.company • past: browser company, snapchat, verge, umich
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
FT @fucktheory.bsky.social Here we go again. History is fractal.
linktree.com/fucktheory
www.patreon.com/fucktheory
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social Art critic, Berlin. Editor at ArtReview. Dachshund butler. Unfold This Moment, Tell Them I Said No, The Uncertainty Principle pub. Sternberg Press
Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social 
Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social Media philosopher, artist, writer
Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities
www.joannazylinska.net
AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
🕯️G C🕯️ @gabycepeda.bsky.social bedazzlement of consciousness
http://www.gabycf.com
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social writer who writes, editor who edits
www.elviapw.com
https://elviawilk.substack.com
brian droitcour @bdroit.bsky.social art critic
@markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social 
Alexandra Mateescu @cariatida.bsky.social RIP Social Media. Researcher @ Data & Society, living in Boston | labor, technology, care | tetrapyloctomy | Labor & Tech newsletter: http://bit.ly/2Fv5xfX | https://acmateescu.com/
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist/Researcher — Platform Culture and Interface Politics — Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard bengrosser.com
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Vanessa Chang @vxchang.bsky.social Writing, thinking, curating: art, technology, people, planet.
Dreaming, making, clowning by way of Singapore, Sydney, San Francisco.
Author of The Body Digital (Melville House, Nov 25).
http://www.vanessa-chang.com
Cheri Lucas Rowlands @cherilucasrowlands.com Senior editor, @longreads.com.
Ben Egliston @benegliston.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney // Political economy of media and technology
bijan @bijan.bsky.social
writer. music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social, making @dearannagame.bsky.social | prev. @compulsiongames.bsky.social @valvesoftware.com
got writing work? inquire within:
bijanstephen.blog/about
Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social 
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
@impkerr.bsky.social @impkerr.bsky.social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imp_Kerr
https://impkerr.com
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Sarah Blackwood @sblackwood.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Jorts. | www.sarah-blackwood.com
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Julius @crprtanthrplgy.bsky.social Doctoral candidate at the RTG “Aesthetics of Democracy”
Working on the hatred and aesthetics of administration
https://aesthetics-of-democracy.de/member/julius-schwarzwalder/
Linda Duits @lalalalinder.bsky.social The spark that will light the fire that will burn the First Order down
lindaduits.nl
https://linktr.ee/lindaduits- A @adamclair.bsky.social @adamclair.bsky.social
Sun-ha Hong @sunhahong.bsky.social Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill. 
Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com